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Languages Spoken

English

Academic Background

MA (Warsaw University), PhD (University of Western Ontario)

Biography

Jerzy (Jurek) Konieczny, Professor of Economics, received an MA degree from Warsaw University (where he also studied mathematics) and a PhD from the University of Western Ontario. He joined the WLU faculty in 1987. His primary area of teaching and research is macroeconomics, in particular the microfoundations of sticky prices and menu cost models. His other research interests include transition and industrial organization. Recent research focuses on the behaviour of prices, and of price setters, regular adjustment, distribution of price changes over time as well as on testing menu cost model.

He is the editor of the Review of Economic Analysis (www.rofea.org), a new, open access electronic journal and a senior fellow at the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (www.rcfea.org). He is organizing the Small Open Economies in a Globalized World conference (www.soegw.org) that will take place in Waterloo, June 12-15, 2008.